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  • 7 - Pointing at Local Knowledge:

  • from Part One - Culture and Development
  • Edited by Mark A. Krause, Southern Oregon University, Kim A. Bard, University of Michigan, Dearborn, David A. Leavens, University of Sussex
  • Book:
    Pointing
    Published online:
    23 June 2026
    Print publication:
    11 June 2026, pp 135-154

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the role of pointing when referring to (non-)local places in everyday conversations conducted in Gija, an endangered Australian Aboriginal language from the East Kimberley, Western Australia. Conversation analytic methods are supplemented by a geospatial approach, which provides a procedure for measuring the angular vectors of pointing gestures and positioning them in ‘real space’. Analyses suggest that pointing is implicated in displays of detailed geographical knowledge and knowledge of recipients’ cultural connections to country. These types of bodily and verbal displays are fitted to recounting events that transpired on local Gija country. This level of detail is not required for events that occurred in nonlocal environments. This chapter aims to expand understandings of pointing as tied to the wider ecology of speakers’ cultural and communicative contexts, and, for these speakers of Gija, as grounded in displays of knowledge of country and land associations.